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Senate Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues on Thursday in voting to block President Trump’s border emergency declaration -- a move that will prompt the president's first-ever veto.

The president made his intentions crystal clear, tweeting "VETO!" moments after the resolution cleared Congress.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., before the vote, said he "takes his hat off" to Republicans voting with Democrats, while accusing Trump of "going around Congress" with the declaration.

"This is a momentous day," he said, declaring that the balance of power was shifting back toward Congress.

The measure heads next to Trump's desk, having previously passed the House. However, Trump plans to veto, and it's unlikely the House and Senate could muster the required two-thirds majority to override.

Trump originally issued the emergency declaration last month after Congress granted only a fraction of the $5.7 billion he requested for a wall on the southern border. Declaring a national emergency allows Trump to steer an extra $3.6 billion to the wall.

The run-up to the resolution vote was marked by last-minute efforts to avoid an intra-party confrontation, but those efforts fell through. Vice President Mike Pence, meanwhile, urged Republicans to support the national emergency declaration in an interview on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning.

@realDonaldTrump 15m15 minutes agoMoreI look forward to VETOING the just passed Democrat inspired Resolution which would OPEN BORDERS while increasing Crime, Drugs, and Trafficking in our Country. I thank all of the Strong Republicans who voted to support Border Security and our desperately needed WALL!

Ted Cruz sent his reasons for supporting Trump. And yes, this must have been typed on his phone.

Tom, Today, the National Emergencies Act requiredthe Senate to answer one question: whether there is an ongoingemergency at our southern border. I voted to support the President'sdeclaration because, as Texans realize all too well, there isone. This was a difficult vote. I understand mycolleagues' real concerns regarding the vast emergency powersthat Congress has given the President over the last half-century.I share those concerns. The press will spin today's vote as arejection of border security, as opposition to a wall, and as arejection of President Trump's commitment to building the wall. All of that is false. Here's what I believe: Number one, we have crisis on our border. Aheartbreaking emergency, which I've seen first-hand in Texas,over and over again. Countless human lives hurt or lost by drugtraffickers, human traffickers, and unchecked illegalimmigration. For example: In 2018, Customs and Border Protectionapprehended 396,579 people at our border. In the first 4 monthsof 2019, CBP has caught another 201,497. If that rate continues,we'll apprehend over 600,000 people in 2019. These hundreds of thousands include arecord-high number of families, including over 1,700 identifiedcases of an adult lying about a relationship to a child in orderto get into our country. Each of those children are at seriousrisk of sexual assault or physical abuse - nobody compassionateshould want even a single boy or girl in the custody of humantraffickers. Between 2012 and 2018, border authoritiesseized over 7,300 tons-almost 14,700,000 pounds-of cocaine,heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl. Of these, fentanyl seizures alone increasedby almost 400% from 2016 to 2018. And in just 2014 to 2018, Border Patrolagents captured 1,630 members of MS-13 alone. That's one memberof MS-13 almost every day. This is a crisis and a tragedy, and we mustfix it. Number two, we need to build a wall. From thefirst day I ran for Senate, I've fought to build a wall. I urgedthe President and the Senate to take up budget reconciliation andfully fund the wall last year-when we still had majorities inboth houses of Congress. I've introduced the EL CHAPO Act tobuild the wall, and pay for it using the billions criminallyforfeited from El Chapo and other drug dealers. Number three, the Constitution matters.Profoundly. My whole life, I've fought for the Constitution. TheConstitution protects our fundamental liberties, and everyPresident should be bound by it, whether Republican or Democrat. I took an oath to uphold the Constitution,and I made that promise to the People of Texas. When President Obama violated theConstitution through executive amnesty, I led the fight againstthat lawless action. Unlike President Obama, here President Trumpis acting pursuant to explicit statutory authority. The National Emergencies Act gives thePresident the authority to activate more than a hundred distinctemergency powers, including those he is exercising here. Thatstatute is, I believe, over-broad. It invites abuse. Indeed, it is easy to imagine a futureDemocratic president using this statute to try to implement aradical, far-left agenda over the will of Congress and theAmerican people. A President Warren could declare climatechange a national emergency and try to suspend offshore drilling.

A President Sanders could declare a nationalemergency in the Middle East and try to freeze the bank accountsof Americans who do business with Israel. And a President Sanders, or Warren, or someother avowed socialist, could try to reallocate billions ofdollars, without the consent of Congress, to advance theirsocialist policies to address those and other so-calledemergencies. That is why I am an original co-sponsor ofSenator Lee's ARTICLE ONE Act, which significantly narrows howthese emergency powers can be used going forward. This bill wouldend any new national emergency if Congress does not approve itwithin 30 days. Combined with a thorough review of ongoingemergencies, this proposal would reduce the danger of an abuse ofnational emergency powers by any of the dozens of far-leftcandidates seeking the Democratic nomination. And I am grateful that the Presidentannounced today-at the urging of many of us-that he will supportour efforts to reform this law, and guard against potential abuseby a lawless future president, Democrat or Republican. Yet while I support reforming the NationalEmergencies Act, that wasn't what the Senate voted on today. Current law empowers the President to declarea national emergency and activate statutory emergency powers whenhe determines there is one, and Congress can then vote todetermine whether or not an emergency exists. And make no mistake: an emergency absolutelyexists on the border, and it is a national and humanitariandisaster. We cannot end this emergency without securingour southern border, and we cannot secure our border withoutbuilding a wall. I support the President's efforts to buildthe wall and secure our border. And I will continue to work withthe President and my colleagues in Congress to reform ournational emergency system and protect Congress's Article Iauthority. But today's question was whether there was anemergency at our southern border. There is, and I voted torecognize that tragic fact. For liberty,

Are you people constitutional conservatives or not?? Regardless if there is an actual crisis/ border emergency you are supporting a President expressly usurping the will of Congress, you know, power of the purse and all. Whst other national emergency has even tread close to this?

Are you people constitutional conservatives or not?? Regardless if there is an actual crisis/ border emergency you are supporting a President expressly usurping the will of Congress, you know, power of the purse and all. Whst other national emergency has even tread close to this?

Except when you disagree with it or it's not convenient for you?

Listen Dumb Ass, you do not insult your host then demand I post your nonsense.When you post, I don't receive an alert, I have to actually log in as Admin, check to see if there are posts awaiting approval, which is low on my priority list of issues I have to address.

This is what this idiot posted to me: The reporter has made the following comment:

"Put up my post you pussy".

As if his stupidity has a date of expiry.

With that said, POTUS is following the Constitution, it was Congress that relinquished their power to the President back in 1976, giving him the duty of declaring a National Emergency.So all your bellowing and whining simply exposes your ignorance once again. There will be a Wall. Deal with it!

With that said, this was your final post. I only allowed you to post for the purpose of comic relief in exposing the ignorance and arrogance of idiot lib kids such as yourself, but you, the joke, has run its course.

Are you people constitutional conservatives or not?? Regardless if there is an actual crisis/ border emergency you are supporting a President expressly usurping the will of Congress, you know, power of the purse and all. Whst other national emergency has even tread close to this?

Except when you disagree with it or it's not convenient for you?

What? The president can only fight an emergancy if the rest of gvt agrees its an emergancy? You fool.

In this instance who is properly expressing the will of the PEOPLE? The president or congress? Clearly the president is trying to fulfill the will of the people, while congress is trying hard to supress the will of the people. The people hold sovereignty here.